North America
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Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs. -
Semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed is the latest chipmaker to receive funding under the US CHIPS and Science Act, receiving up to $750 million to build a new silicon carbide wafer manufacturing site in North Carolina.
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Crusoe, the crypto miners turned clean energy AI infrastructure operator, has launched a $3.4 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure to build data centres in Texas.
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Vertiv has revealed plans for a major expansion of its North American manufacturing footprint with a new 215,000-square-foot facility in Pelzer, South Carolina.
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Italian cloud and data centre operator Aruba S.p.A has unveiled its €300 million hyperscale data centre campus in Rome.
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Google has started construction on two new data centres in Dorchester County, South Carolina, as part of a $2 billion investment that will create 200 jobs.
Forthcoming events
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Global 5G IoT satellite operator, OQ Technology, has been granted a patent for its IoT ‘wake-up’ technology by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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Telco supplier TEOCO has announced the acquisition of Software Synergy Inc (SSI).
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A New York-based company that is working with Telefónica says it has developed a quantum-based key system that is available in the cloud.
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Intel Corporation (Intel) is to acquire Tower Semiconductor (Tower), an Israeli manufacturer of analogue semiconductor solutions, for approximately $5.4 billion.
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Capacity is now accepting entries for its annual 20 Women to Watch power list!
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Windstream Wholesale will connect its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) to the AUBix LLC data centre near Auburn University.
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400Gbps technologies are expected to drive service provider router market growth, according to a report by Dell’Oro Group.
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Syniverse this morning dropped its plan for a US$2.85 billion reverse takeover that would have seen the company listed.
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Global management consulting firm Bain & Company has published its 2022 Global M&A report which found that telecoms M&A experienced a dramatic rebound during 2021.
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A very British approach to regulation; altimeter checks in Norway and the cold side of quantum computing
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AT&T has agreed to use Inteliquent's Internet Protocol (IP) voice traffic exchange services.
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Arelion, the former Telia Carrier, has upgraded its network capacity and capabilities at 1623 Farnam’s interconnected edge data centre in Omaha.
